The Karnataka government's decision to grant tenurial rights of slum dwellers and launch a scheme to improve civic facilities in the slums is welcome if the plan is implemented in real earnest and is

The Andhra Pradesh Urban Services for the Poor (APUSP) has been taken up with the assistance of the British Department for International Development in 32 towns of the State at a cost of Rs 745

The Outlook Traveller and the Travel Agents Association(TAAI) have chosen Kerala as the best State that promoted tourism in the country in 2001. Kerala is the first State to receive this

The government is to shortly come out with a comprehensive national slum development policy aimed at ameliorating the condition of slums and the urban poor. Stating this on Monday, the Union urban

The recently announced supplementary report of the 2001 Census shows Assam recording the second lowest growth in urban population at the decadal rate of 12.7 per cent among the fifteen major States

Bangalore has scored 13 out of 16 points as the global hub of technological innovations ranked by a United Nations report. The human development report which identifies 46 locations as global hubs

Bangalore, India's silicon city, has added one more feather in its cap as the United Nation's latest human development report has recognised it as one of the leading global hubs of technological

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) in association with Udaipur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCI) is organising an international conference on 'rural tourism in

In one of the major decisions, and a long awaited once concerning at least 20,000 people in the peripheral areas of Shimla town, the Himachal Pradesh Cabinet today decided to withdraw the newly

Two months of the six-months extension which the Supreme Court gave for commercial vehicles in Delhi to change over to compressed natural gas (CNG) are almost over. There has been little progress as